Barney Frank Quotes
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.
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I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
